[dnanian]

Herb:

Actually, since it's not documented I don't know where the information about disabled volumes is kept, but I wouldn't worry about it growning a lot. I can't believe Spotlight and mdutil would be that broken.

I believe that once you restore the volume it will be indexed again, but I haven't done extensive tests on this. But, if you see that it's not being indexed, it's easy enough to turn it on.

(WHen I looked at this it seemed less permanent than you might think -- sometimes reattaching teh drive would have it get indexed again. Spotlight is still pretty new, and I'm sure Apple is working hard to make its management a bit more transparent and logical.)

Hope that helps!